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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here unless stated otherwise. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk. I can be found at academia.edu but am not on X and never used Twitter. New July 2026: www.otherpeoplesletters.com where I transcribe and introduce letters I have found outside archives, mostly written 1750-1850

Saturday, 31 May 2014

Review: Susan Cain, Quiet

This book kept appearing on Waterstone's tables and in the end I succumbed. My first reaction was one of surprise: Introversion...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Review: Jane Fallon, Skeletons - and a few remarks on Style

I doubt that men of an age to have liver spots are among the intended readers of this book. Indeed, the book’s Leading Bad Guy is ju...

Sunday, 11 May 2014

Review: Jennie Rooney, Red Joan

I picked up this book for a peculiar reason: the story of Red Joan draws partly on the real-life story of Melita Norwood who - some ...

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Review: J.M.Coetzee, the Life of Jesus

“Something’s Missing” “This sentence, which is in Mahagonny, is one of the most profound sentences that Brecht ever wrote and it is...

Review: Jim Crace, Harvest

Lebensraum for sheep - that was a major aim of England’s Enclosure movement which cleared the countryside of people and replaced the...

Thursday, 24 April 2014

Film Review: NOAH (Daniel Aronofsky)

It's some time since I went to the cinema and even longer since I went to an Odeon in Leicester Square. It didn't take me long to re...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Essay: Some Doubts about Universities and the Humanities

I have always had my doubts about universities. If you take the long view, they have rarely encouraged scientific enquiry or tolerance of...

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